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The Akihabara massacre (Japanese: 秋葉原通り魔事件, Hepburn: Akihabara Tōrima Jiken) [a] was an incident of mass murder that took place on 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
The 1983 Japanese film, Ushimitsu no mura (Village of Doom), was based on the massacre. It stars Masato Furuoya as Tsugio Inumaru, an emotionally distraught young man who goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II .
It was considered "suicidal terrorism" by one criminology professor at Rissho University, as the attack was reportedly intended to be a suicide mission by the suspect. [1] In December 2021, another arson attack occurred, this time at a building in Osaka, specifically at a psychiatric clinic located on the fourth floor. It killed 25 and injured ...
The February 26 incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken, also known as the 2–26 incident) was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan on 26 February 1936. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.
The attack is currently the sixth deadliest mass murder, along with the Matsumoto incident, in recent Japanese history, surpassed in fatalities only by the Tokyo subway sarin attack, the Osaka movie theater fire, [7] the Sagamihara stabbings, the Kyoto Animation arson attack, and the Myojo 56 building fire. At the time, it was tied with the ...
The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out 200 Japanese yen in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths. The massacre has since been continually denied or minimized by both mainstream Japanese politicians and fringe Japanese right-wing groups.
The first recorded assassination involving the use of a gun in Japan occurred several years earlier in 1566 when Ukita Naoie hired two rōnin brothers to kill the daimyō Mimura Iechika by shooting him to death in Bicchū Province. Similarly, beheading by sawing was an exceptionally severe and uncommon execution method throughout Japanese history.
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮﨑 勤, Miyazaki Tsutomu, 21 August 1962 – 17 June 2008) was a Japanese serial killer who murdered four young girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture between August 1988 and June 1989. [1] He abducted and killed the girls, aged from 4 to 7, in his car before dismembering them and molesting their corpses.